Tannoy or Volti


I have a friend who has the Tannoy Prestige GRF 90 for sale he is moving out of the country for half price, he paid $29000 in around 2020 not made in China. I am upgrading my Forte IVs, I am also considering the Volti audio Lucera…anyone that has heard the Tannoy and any other suggestions which will be better would be appreciated….I have a few first watt amps and several tube amps…plus Jeff Rowland and Pass Labs amps..

charles007100

charles007100, Too bad you don't like horns.

Mr Corleone is a man who likes to hear bad news immediately...

Just kidding, at least you tried. Good luck with whatever you get. 

@kennyc There is a Devore dealer 30 minutes from me…they usually have the O/baby set up, anything more expensive they won’t get them in unless you pay in full with no audition time..

will the O/baby be a good example?

The O/baby is new so I haven’t demoed, but this Stereophile here says Sonics is similar house sound.

The Devore O/96 dealer believes that while the O/93 sounds great very good, the O/96 is significantly sonically better in which I agree.  Likely the same O/96 vs O/baby.  So no, the O/baby may not be good enough to understand the O/96 Sonics, but it may be good enough to hear the Devore Orangutan house sound and if you like then track down a O/96 to demo

Side note- in addition to my high powered speakers, I’m also using the 100 Volti Rival to discover tube amp magic including flea watt amps down to 2wpc.  As the Volti is clear/neutral, I’d like to get a pair of the musical O/96s.  Then I can try tube amps on both - what fun!  Unfortunately, I don’t have the storage space …yet